Bobbin-holder for spooling-machin es



(No Model.)

I J. S. RICHARDSON. BOBBIN HOLDER FOR SPOOLING MACHINES.

No. 457,011. Patented Aug. 4, 1891.

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JOHN S'RICHARDSON, OF LOVELL, ASS IGNOR TO GEORGE DRAPER & SONS,

OF HOPEDALE, MASSACHUSETTS.

BOBBlN-HOLDER FOR SPOOLlNG-MACHINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 457,011, dated August 4, 1891. Application file September 25, 1890. Serial No. 3661132. (N model.)

To all whom it may concern: ing lip has an upwardly-extended arm G and Be it known that I, JOHN S. RICHARDSON, of lateral hubs or projections g g, which fit over Lowell, county of Middlesex, State of Massaa fulcrum-pin g, held in ears I) of a bearingchusetts, have invented an Improvement in plate I), placed on the cap and made adjust- Bobbin -I-Iolders for Spooling Machines, of able thereon by a screw 1) in a slot of the which the following description, in conuecbearing-plate. The arm G receives upon it tion with the accompanying drawings, is a a weight H, which is adapted to be moved specificationdike letters on the drawings reptherein in such manner as to cause the edge resenting like parts. 2 of the lip to act with more or less force on 60 m This invention has forits object to improve the wound bobbin. This weight H (see Figs. and simplify the construction of bobbin-hold- 1 to 3) is mounted eccentrically on the upers in use in spoofing-machines, whereby the wardly-extended arm G, which is shown as said holders are better adapted to hold bobcomposed of two parts, one being a screw bins from which yarn is being unwound, so screwed into a boss on the arm, the boss servf5 r5 that this yarn may be reeled off without any ing as a shoulder, between which and the injurious jumping of the bobbins. head of the screw the eccentricallybored The improved holder to be herein described weight may be clamped in an adjustable poconsists, essentially, of a concaved rest or supsit-ion. It will be understood that by the parport, over which is located a convexed cap, tial rotation of the weight H or its adjust- 7o one longitudinal edge of which is extended ment circularly on the arm G the pressure exdown nearly to one edge of the rest, and an erted by the lip will be more or less. adjustable bearing mounted on said cap, the In Figs. 4c and 5, showing a modification, cap supporting a gravitating lip, which acts the upwardly-extended arm G is inclined, against the bobbin at a point substantially and by adjusting the weight I-l thereon up or 75 2 5 opposite the lower edge of the cap, and an ecdown the force of the weight is thrown more centrically-mounted weight for said lip. I or less to one side of the pivot 5 of the lip, so have shown the lip as mounted on a pin or as to increase or decrease, as desired, the stud of a bearing made adjustable on the cap gravity or pressure of the edge of the lip to thus better adapt the holder to bobbins of against the wound bobbin. Adjustment of 8o different diameter. An arm of the lip has an the weight by the screw n enables the tenadjustable weight eccentrically mounted. sion to be varied quickly to the number of Figure 1 in side elevation represents a bobthe yarn. bin-holder embodyingmyimprovements; Fig. To accommodate -for bobbins of different 2,asection thereofin thelinezr; Fig. 3,aplan diameter the saddle or plate I) may be ad- 85 view of the holder shown in Fig. 1; and Figs. justed on the cap by loosening the screw 12 4 and 5 represent a modification to be deand be then again clamped in place. It will scribed. be noticed that the entire weight of the bob- Referring to the drawings, A represents a bin is supported by the rest and that the bobconcaved rest for the bobbin, and above itis bin has but one point of contact as a tangent c a convened cap having one of its longitudinal with the rest, and consequently the bobbin sides B extended downwardly nearly to one rotates more freely and with less strain on edge of the rest, the said extensionserving to the yarn than would be the case if the bobarrest the escape of the bobbin from that side bin-rest was substantially V shape in crossof the weight above which it is located. As section, so that the periphery of the bobbin shown, the rest is joined by screw A to a when resting therein would touch the rest at stand 0, having a semi-hub and an upright, two points. The hubs of the lips willbe prothe latter receiving the screw B used to atvided with a stop m to prevent the lip from tach the cap B to the stand. The lip G is so being accidentally turned too far from the shaped and supported as to bear by gravity wound bobbin. The semi-hub of the stand I00 against the wound bobbin. (Shown by dotted has two shoulders 5, and to the stand is pivlines as lying on the rest A.) This gravitatoted at 3 a semi-clamp C having projections 4. A screw it, inserted through an ear of the semi clamp and through an ear h of the stand, serves to bind the holder firmly upon the rod E,a number of said holders being clamped on the rod side by side, said projections 4 and 5 aiding very materially or acting as teeth to maintain the holder in any desired position, or so firmly that it will not drop or sag or be easily turned about the rod.

. Prior to this invention a frame supported by a Weight has been employed to act against and produce tension upon a bobbin during its rotation, so a weighted lip is not herein claimed broadly.

I claim- 1 The concave restA to support the bobbin, and the cap B, surrounding the upper side of the .bobbin and having an adjustable bearing mounted on said cap, combinedwith a gravitating downwardly-extended lip carried by said bearings to contact with the bobbin op= posite where the cap contacts therewith, and a weight to keep the lip pressed against the bobbin, substantially as described.

2. In a bobbin-holder, a rest, its cap, and bearings thereon, combined with a gravitating lip pivoted in said bearing and having an upwardly-extended arm and a weight mounted eccentrically thereon, to operate substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN S. RICHARDSON. Witnesses:

PETER A. FAY, JAMES F. OWEN. 

